Posted 14 Apr 2009 — by Arun
Category Linux
Cooliris is a plugin that displays images from Google, Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, from your PC hard drive etc as a 3D wall. You can effortlessly scroll through the images and videos. Once installed, you can launch Cooliris from the toolbar in the browser window or my moving the mouse over the image if the image is from one of the supported sites.
Cooliris now supports Linux. According to the Cooliris blog, Cooliris now has a linux version that is shipping with 1.10 release. Here are the system requirements:
- A recent Linux distribution.
- Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 10, OpenSuse 11 should work.
- Hardware-accelerated graphics. Without hardware acceleration, Cooliris should still run, but will be unusably slow.
- NVidia cards with proprietary drivers (version 173 and above) have been tested and function well
- ATI cards have been tested and work with the latest fglrx driver
- Intel integrated cards function but with issues
- To test hardware acceleration, run “glxgears” in full screen and see if it runs smoothly
- Firefox 3
- Flash 10 or higher. If you’re using a 64-bit Linux, it is recommended that you install a pre-release version of 64-bit Flash.
I wanted to check the Linux file. I was using a Windows machine, so when I clicked “To see all products, click here” in the download section, I could see only Windows and Mac versions. I couldn’t find the Linux one. CoolPreviews has a Linux version. I have to try it from a Linux machine and see if it works.
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More than 8 months after Firefox 3.0 was released and Firefox 3.1 getting close to final release, Oracle has certified Firefox 3.0 with Oracle E-Business suite 11i and 12. They have released a new ATG interoperability patch to support Firefox 3.0. They have also released a patch for Java which removes static versioning and switches Firefox to non-static versioning. A long due changes finally arrived.
Source: Oracle E-Business Suite Technology blog.
Technorati Tags: Oracle, E-Business Suite, Firefox 3.0, Java
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Perspectives is a Firefox 3.0 extension which helps in protecting wireless users from “man-in-the-middle” attack. Perspectives contacts network notaries whenever your browser connects an HTTPS website. This extension also partially resolves the arguments going around the web about the way Firefox 3.0 handles security exceptions.
The extension provides two primary benefits:
- If you connect to a website with an untrusted (e.g.,self-signed certificate), Firefox
will give you a security error and force you to manually install
an exception. Perspectives can detect whether a self-signed
certificate is valid, and automatically overrides the annoying
security error page if it is safe to do so.
- It is possible that an attacker may trick one of the many Certificate
Authorities trusted by Firefox into incorrectly issuing a certificate for a
trusted website. Perspectives can also detect this attack and will warn
you if things look suspicious.
Source: Carnegie Mellon, CNet.
Perspectives, Firefox 3.0, Extension, CNet, Carnegie Mellon
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Posted 17 Jul 2008 — by Arun
Category General
There could be more than one way to do this, but I found this easy to do. This method helps you to set specific persmissions like whether a specific site can load image or not, can open pop up window or not, can set cookies or not and can install extensions and themes or not. To do this, go to the webpage you want the permission to be set. Click on Tools – Page info. Then click on Permission icon. This shows you the above mentioned options. Most of those will have Use default checked unless you have changed it before. If you want to change permission, uncheck Use Default and select Allow or Block (See picture). I tried this in Firefox 3.x. I think it must be the same in Firefox 2.x, but I’m not sure.
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Mozilla is planning to release Firefox 3.0 at 10.00 a.m. PDT (Pacific time) and attempting to set Guinness world record (maximum number of downloads in 24 hrs).
Update: 10.02 a.m.: PDT. It looks like Mozilla’s site is terribly slow or down due to this. Firefox 3.0 should have been out by now.
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Mono, an open source project sponsored by Novell has released Moonlight 0.6 with profile 1.0 and profile 2.0. Moonlight profile 1.0 is based on Silverlight v1.0 and Moonlight profile 2.0 is based on Silverlight v2.0. Silverlight is Microsoft’s answer to dethrone Adobe’s flash player. Moonlight is Silverlight for Linux.
The above Moonlight versions are test installers, so they are not bug free. Firefox 3 support is known to be buggy, particularly as regards plugin detection from javascript. The funny part is, these are currently built without multimedia support. No video or mp3 playback is enabled on these binaries.
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Posted 01 Apr 2008 — by Arun
Category General
I installed Firefox 3.0 beta 4 on my Vista system. I didn’t like the default theme. It appeared greyish blue which I felt was not pleasing. I installed 4 new themes which were compatible with Firefox 3 (Firefox 3.0 didn’t allow me to install the ones that were not compatible with Firefox 3.0). When I switched to the new theme, the Google search box on top right was not displayed correctly. The Google logo was somewhere near the middle of the search box and I couldn’t see the first few letters I entered in the search box. All 4 themes showed it in the same way. Only the default theme worked fine. I’m not sure if it’s the theme problem or my Firefox installation problem. Here are the list of themes I tried:
Cobalt Firefox
Aquatint redone
Aquatint black gloss
Aero fox
Technorati Tags: Firefox 3.0, Themes, Vista
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Mozilla has released the first beta of their next generation web browser Firefox 3.0. There are lots of minor improvements and new features in Firefox 3.0 including the new Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform. Here are some of the new and improved functionality in Firefox 3.0:
Security:
- One click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to
see who owns the site.
- Malware protection warns users when they arrive
at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other
malware.
- New Web Forgery Protection page.
- New SSL error pages.
- Firefox now automatically checks
add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
- To improve add-on update security, add-ons
that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
- Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when
downloading executables.
- Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide
parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
Usage:
- An information bar replaces the old
password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
- The add-ons whitelist has been removed
making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer
clicks.
- New Download Manager.
- Users can now resume downloads after
restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
- The
new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the
layout, text and images.
- New tab scrolling and quick menu.
- Opening a folder of bookmarks in
tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
- Location and Search bar size can now be customized.
- Multiple text selections can be made
with Ctrl key.
- Native theme support.
- Quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a
single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
- Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by
topic.
- Type the title or tag of a page in the
location bar to quickly find the site you were looking for in your history;
favicons, bookmark.
- Smart Places Folder.
Developers:
- New graphics and font handling.
- Native Web page forms.
- Firefox can now adjust images
with embedded color profiles.
- Offline support.
Source: Mozilla
For more detailed list of changes, you can refer to Burning Edge. You can download Firefox 3.0 beta 1 from here.
Technorati Tags: Mozilla, Firefox 3.0, Gecko 1.9, HTML
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